juniorganymedian: (a slight miscalculation)
Reginald Jeeves ([personal profile] juniorganymedian) wrote in [community profile] revenance_comms2014-04-04 11:52 pm

The Things that Creep Around at Night [Private audio to Luna just before the 4th Wall went down]

[Jeeves doesn't particularly want to be seen at the moment as he's looking a little haggard. The nightmares he'd assured Luna were no problem have become problematic now that it would seem he's having different ones from the recurring one they'd had before the fight with the mare Nightmare in Ponyville. He'd never intended to actually call upon the Princess of Dreams, but he would be foolish to ignore her as a resource in this instance. It's very early morning - most would call it still night - when he contacts her.]

My apologies for any interruption to your regular duties, Your Royal Highness, but I wish to request an audience with you. Would you be available to meet at the top of the clock tower in Twilight Town sometime today?
raisethemoon: (I cannot watch your dreams)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-05 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly. Is something the matter?
raisethemoon: (Uncertainty)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-06 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Very well. I shall be there momentarily.

[And indeed she is, gliding into the top of the clock tower and coming in for a neat landing.]

Jeeves?
raisethemoon: (The Royal Glare)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-06 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
I do.

[She has indeed noticed certain...issues...radiating from his general area of the dreamscape. She deems it best not to mention that, however.]

Are you requesting my assistance, now? I can be quick in my efforts, but I can do nothing from outside the dream.
raisethemoon: (Eyeroll)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-07 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I meant simply that you had refused the offer, before. Is this to be a one-time matter, or do you wish to rescind your previous decision?
raisethemoon: (Shout into the night)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
My more typical method would be to help you work through the root of the problem, so that they would stop recurring on their own. But of course, one cannot always have done with things so easily.

[Especially humans. All of them are horrifically traumatized. All of them.]

As it is, I cannot simply force your subconscious to never bring up a certain subject again. That could do more harm than good.
raisethemoon: (How about no)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-08 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
...you dismissed your dreams of war.
raisethemoon: (Let us explain)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-08 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah. She's calling bullshit. It's not like Luna's never met a war veteran before, Jeeves - she's been a war veteran. She sighs. Really, it's perfectly reasonable that being exposed to combat again after six years of peace would cause a resurgence, there's no need to prattle on about functionality as though the subconscious were a toolkit one could pack at will.]

You are likely correct as to the cause, but I cannot remove it entirely without wiping your memories of the war, or something equally foalish.
raisethemoon: (Lack of faith)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-09 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[She wouldn't have done it anyway. She'd hoped that calling it foalish would make that clear.]

Not very long at all. [Luna raises an eyebrow but does not comment on the gallows humor.] Do not fret about me, anyhow. I am not unfamiliar with war - and I will do as I must.
raisethemoon: (What...just happened...)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-09 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...yes...

[Stars above, has he been reading everything in the archives? That talk has to have been months ago! Luna supposes she can't fault the man for wanting more information about this place...but it's a little weird.]

That was the major one. My sister and I dealt with most other matters on our own.
raisethemoon: (Guardian)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Is it not the duty of all royals to protect their subjects?

[Rhetorical - she's clearly seen that human leaders don't seem to do that much. To be fair, they aren't in possession of magic and lifespans far overreaching those of their subjects.]

But yes, Equestria has not experienced war for a very long time. A few recent attacks, certainly, but they were all put down with haste.
raisethemoon: (Full of stars)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-10 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She just inclines her head.]

By their current bearers, yes. You shall have to direct any more questions about that to Pinkie Pie or Rarity; I was not present at either of the last two battles. [Well okay that's technically not true.]
raisethemoon: (We see what thou did there)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-10 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Luna knows exactly what that means. And she just smiles.]

She bears the Element of Laughter remarkably well.

[Oh it's so much funnier when it's happening to others.]
raisethemoon: (We are unsure)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-10 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[She's a little uneasy with this particular choice of topic, but tries not to let it show. Maybe he really does just want to compliment her.]
raisethemoon: (Sour)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-11 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
'Tis but a matter of old Equestrian history. We have lived long enough that I imagine we should recognize most any form it chose.

[Luna feels a stab of guilt for lying, but she did not come here and agree to help Jeeves just to get her own frailties picked at. She's told those she believes deserve the story long ago, and while it has crossed her mind more than once that those who fought the Nightmare deserve to know what its history was...

...she'll do it on her own terms if she does. Not like this.]
raisethemoon: (Lack of faith)

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2014-04-11 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Was that some kind of veiled threat? What did she ever do to him? Now she's trying to recall exactly what books are in that library. Nothing older than a few years or younger than a few centuries should contain much...except for however Twilight Sparkle learned about her prophesied return in the first place, how did she do that? Ugh, she's going to have to ask Celestia.]

Of course. A good evening to thee.

[And she takes wing again. Jeeves, you have probably just disturbed and indeed somewhat annoyed the creeping woman.]